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That's an incredibly large amount per user? I have worked on a couple online dating sites, including one that was fairly popular (Let's Date - which stiffed me for my last invoice before they went belly up grrr). Unless you're storing images in the database, it's really hard to generate 600k for a dating workload - even with indexes.

The only thing I can imagine generating 600k per user is putting something like "hit tracking" in the database. Which I've done - yes it adds up - but it's also relatively easy to move to some other kind of store.




If messages between users go into their main database, then that would be a pretty reasonable amount.


600k is a sizable book. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is 600k. And that's the average per-user; most users will never send or receive messages.

The only thing I can imagine is that they do an incredible amount of activity tracking.




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